International studio (59.1916)

Studio- Talk


Of French extraction—his grandfather belonged
to Marseilles—Legras was brought up and educated
in Holland. Early in life the young painter knew
the need of money, and in order to maintain him-
self while studying at the Amsterdam Academy he
earned a scanty living by making enlargements

and drawings of animals. About this time some
“portraits” of horses which he executed attracted
the attention of Mr. Westerman, director of the
Zoological Gardens, whither Legras often resorted
to sketch, and it was there that the young artist’s
liking for Oriental things took root. Thus it was

“early morning on the river chelif, Algeria” by w. legras
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